RUSSIA: LEADERS THE FOOTBALL UNION PREPARE FOR EMERGENCY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Record ID: 988195

  • Title: RUSSIA: LEADERS THE FOOTBALL UNION PREPARE FOR EMERGENCY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
  • Date: 7th December 1998
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (RECENT) (RTN) 1. CONFERENCE HALL OF RUSSIAN FOOTBALL UNION/DELEGATES 2. CONFERENCE SESSION/HEAD OF RUSSIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION NIKOLAI TOLSTYKH AT PODIUM 3. DELEGATES/ PRESIDENT OF RUSSIAN FOOTBALL UNION VYACHESLAV KOLOSKOV AT HEAD TABLE/DELEGATES 4. TROPHIES OUTSIDE KOLOSKOV'S OFFICE/KOLOSLKOV IN OFFICE 5. (SOUNDBITE)(Russian) KOLOSKOV "Formerly they [the Soviet Union national team] played on the level of Brazil, Italy, and other nations and they played admirably, but today Russia alone stands against the world's top football powers, and the potential of Russian football is, unfortunately, too low." 6. TROPHY CASE/PHOTO OF SOVIET NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM THAT WON GOLD MEDAL IN 1956 MELBOURNE OLYMPICS (FILE - LENINGRAD (AS WAS THEN CALLED) 1984)(SOVIET TV - NO ACCESS RUSSIA) 7. SOVIET NATIONAL TEAM PLAYING/SCORING AGAINST MEXICAN NATIONAL TEAM IN 1984 SOCCER FRIENDLY MATCH MOSCOW (RECENT)(RTV) 8. HEAD OF RUSSIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION NIKOLAI TOLSTYKH 9. (SOUNDBITE)(Russian) TOLSTYKH "Now, the Russian Professional League has expressed its opinion that Vyasheslav Ivanovich [Koloskov] at the present point and time is unable to consolidate the forces of people who wish and are able to help Russian football while there is a real possibility to do just that" (FILE - RUSSIAN TV NO ACCESS RUSSIA) 10. TEAM DYNAMO (BLUE JERSEYS) PLAYING AGAINST/GIVING UP GOALS TO ROME TEAM (RED JERSEYS) MOSCOW (RECENT)(RTV) 11. EMBASSY OF RUSSIAN REPUBLIC OF KALMYKIA 12. PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KALMYKIA KIRSAN ILZHYUMINOV 13. (SOUNDBITE)(Russian) ILZHYUMINOV "Football is not just a sport, and it is not politics, it is one of the branches of our economy, I call football the factory that can produce good moods." 14. VARIOUS OF YOUNG RUSSIANS PLAYING FOOTBALL IN A SNOWY PLAYGROUND Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st December 1998 12:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
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